As a brief response to your comment on religious leaders... When you use the term 'we' you are refering to your family, your government, your church, your race or your country? I am unclear? I don't regard personally world religious leaders opinion in any matter. Their views and opinions are shaped from totally different set of values and beliefs than my own. Although I don't follow a religion myself and through experience concluded there isn't a God or other greater being, I still and can respect others for their views and opinion, religious or other. But I can see for myself as I have travelled a great deal in Africa and S. America that poverty exists. You know what... I am not even gonna try and keep writing as the second sentence of yours isnt even legible in the english language "Is not the glorification of one self regarded as base in all societies at some point of excess?"... All I know is that John Travolta is only famous and exposed because we made him that way.